Tag: mlb
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Double Trouble: Tarik Skubal wins his second AL Cy Young Award
If you didn’t read my post on Paul Skenes, go check it out. I’ll be rolling these out at similar times. Tarik Skubal won his second Cy Young Award after an insane 2025. A left-handed pitcher, Skubal’s physical presence and stuff gives hitters little to no chance in a game where success is hard enough…
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The first Cy Young Award of many for Paul Skenes?
With baseball’s award season coming to a close, I wanted to do an in-depth dive into some of the award winners and what made them so special at their job. The first player we’ll look at is the NL Cy Young Award winner: Paul Skenes. For those who aren’t familiar, the Cy Young Award is…
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Yoshinobu Yamamoto lifts the Dodgers to the top once more.
No Sunday Sandbox this week due to a busy Sunday. Do not fret, I’m back with it next Sunday and more standalone pieces this week. Today, I want to share a quick piece about the World Series MVP. Dodgers take Game 7 in extras to break Canadians’ hearts If there was any doubt that this…
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Lessons in Sabermetrics: Expected Stats (xBA, xSLG, xwOBA, xERA)
With the introduction of Statcast technology in 2015, MLB evaluators have been able to unlock a new level of analysis. Understanding exit velocity, launch angle, spin rate or sprint speed allows students of the game to realize where certain players outshine others. If you watch enough baseball, you quickly learn there is much luck involved…
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Sunday Sandbox v2: Kurt Suzuki, the NBA is screwed, and good ‘ole All-22.
Welcome to the second iteration of Sunday Sandbox. For those who didn’t read version 1, this series is meant to be a rundown of thoughts or questions I had this week and throwing them out to the public for all to think about or provide insight for me. A lot has happened in the sports…
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Sunday Sandbox v1: A Boring World Series, Media Rights, and Do “Good” Football Players Really Exist?
Fresh off taking in the Chicago Bears’ 4th-straight win, I find myself in a rare mood on a Sunday evening. It’s not often I get this feeling, and to be pleased 4 Sundays in a row? Am I dreaming? Without the Mets to spoil these vibes, I decided to sit down and write about a…
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4 of the MLB’s best postseason performances of all time
As we make our way through the 2025 AL and NL League Championship Series, I got the idea to research and write about the greatest postseason performances that baseball has seen. Note: I could have shoved the 2004 Postseason in your face with a number of performances, but decided to hold it to one so…
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A Review of Will Carroll’s The Science of Baseball: The Math, Technology, and Data Behind the Great American Pastime
Thought-provoking questions in baseball are hard to come by. As Carroll will tell you many times in this read, when it comes to change in baseball, the baseball minds will discuss the issues at hand over and over and over, and then a few more times before anything concrete occurs (or doesn’t). The Science of…
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Lessons in Sabermetrics: K% and BB%
Today I want to teach you all about two of the more simple, yet more telling statistics to reference when evaluating a pitcher. You can refer to these for any type of pitcher (starter, reliever, closer). K%, or strikeout rate, and BB%, or walk rate, are exactly what they sound like: the rate at which…
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An analysis of the season and where to start with the New York Mets post-2025
What a disaster this 2025 New York Mets team was. If you’re a fan, you probably wish they would’ve just ripped the Band-Aid off and not waited until the last day of the season to show exactly why they never had it in them. However, the world is not so kind, and the Mets were…
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